Chemical consequences of inappropriate segregation of electrowaste Chemiczne następstwa niewłaściwej segregacji elektroodpadów

Marczuk, A.; Misztal, Wojciech; Szmigielski, M.; Zarajczyk, J.; Kowalczuk, J.; Jóźwiakowski, Krzysztof

doi:10.15199/62.2015.8.10

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“…The dynamic technological development is associated with a number of consequences, both positive and negative. Among the latter, the most important is the intensifi cation of the adverse impact on the environment, which is related not only to the production and use of hi-tech equipment, but also its end-of--life phase (Marczuk et al 2015). Recent years have witnessed a growing share of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in the overall structure of collected waste materials (Emmanouil et al 2013, Zhang et al 2015.…”

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“…It contains valuable materials that can be recovered in the recycling processes, but also highly harmful substances and chemicals (mercury, lead, cadmium, etc. ), which require special methods of collection and management (Cao et al 2016, Marczuk et al 2015, Sun et al 2015.…”

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“…Unfortunately, due to the lack of awareness or other reasons, still a certain amount of WEEE ends up in mixed municipal waste. This leads to the intensifi cation of the harmful effects of waste on the environment and human health, and loss of resources associated with the failure to recycle (Marczuk et al 2015). Because the effectiveness of a WEEE collection system mainly depends on consumers' behavior, the system should be as convenient and easily accessible to them as possible.…”

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One of the consequences of the dynamic technological development is the rapidly increasing amount of electro-waste (WEEE, e-waste). Because there are no uniform legal regulations regarding the ways of collecting such waste, the separate-collection systems used in various areas are not homogeneous, and they usually also differ in effectiveness. The aim of this study was to evaluate the electro-waste collection system implemented in Lublin (the largest city in Eastern Poland). Taking into account the fact that the reliability of a collection system depends on the degree of its adaptation to the functions it performs, the evaluation consisted in determining how big a problem improper electro-waste segregation was. The article presents the results of a study of the causes of citizens' failure to properly manage e-waste and indicates what measures should be taken to amend the problem. During two research steps, 347 pieces of e-waste with a total weight of 77.218 kg were found in the analyzed waste samples (0.33% of all samples). This means that the mechanisms of selective e-waste collection still do not work correctly, despite the ten years of Poland's membership in the EU and implementation of European legislation in this area. The fact that residents throw away electric waste into municipal mixed waste containers poses a serious problem for proper waste management -even if only a part of the e-waste is disposed in this illegal way. This indicates the necessity of improving waste collection (more frequent waste reception, convenient access to e-waste containers, raising public awareness, etc.).

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